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Today our entire issue is given over to John Ware. Ware has investigated how the alt-media has helped fuel ‘Atrocity Denialism’ and the journalistic scruples – or the lack of them – that these outlets have deployed in making their case. 👇

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Unfortunately, Alan Johnson is forced to continue adding shocking examples to '"Progressives" and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide'

‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide

Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays (Routledge 2023) Originally published on 9 October, two days after the 7...

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NEW: Peter Beinart and Palestinian Refugee ‘Return’: A Critique, by @Adi_Schwartz and @EinatWilf

Peter Beinart and Palestinian Refugee ‘Return’: A Critique

Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf are the authors of The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace (2020), which Peter Beinart, in his widely read...

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NEW: Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir by Kathleen Hayes

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Fathom spoke to @EinatWilf about her essay ‘Zionism as Therapy’, which seeks to correct anti-Zionism’s success in divorcing Zionism from its intellectual and historical origins. See the full interview here:

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"Labour responded to the report this morning, and the response symbolises everything that is wrong with the party... It says 'he belongs to BICOM'. You stop and think 'a major political party has just stopped and said 'don't trust him he's a Zionist'" - Professor Alan Johnson

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New to #Fathom : 'Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism' by @IzaTabaro :

Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism

For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the ...

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How did British academia get to a point where a uni professor can put at risk his own students? In our new Long Read, David Hirsh tries to explain, as straightforwardly as possible, the meaning of David Miller & what made him possible:

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Following the exposé in the @JewishChron on David Miller's comments over the Manchester bomber, our long-read by David Hirsh explains who David Miller is and what he really represents in British academia:

Fathom Long Read | The Meaning of David Miller

According to Bristol University Professor David Miller, ‘Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by the state of Israel and its advocates’. He believes ‘Bristol’s JSoc [Jewis...

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"Faced with this plain-as-day antisemitic Hamas pogrom how have ostensible progressives in the West responded? In many cases, by cheering on the pogrom as ‘resistance’."

‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide

Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays (Routledge 2023) Originally published on 9 October, two days after the 7...

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Labour is guilty of failing to understand contemporary antisemitism, failing to develop truly independent structures to tackle antisemitism, and guilty of failing to root out a culture of antisemitism denial and victim-blaming. Read Alan Johnson's op-ed

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Michael Walzer, @DissentMag : The leftist claim that the occupation and right-wing nationalism of the #Netanyahu government reveal #Israel 's ‘essential character’ is an essentialist argument reserved exclusively for the Jewish state:

Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Michael Walzer is editor emeritus of the democratic left magazine Dissent and an advisory editor of Fathom. He argues here that ‘when it comes to leftist debates about Israel Zionism is the issue,...

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Catch Fathom editor Alan Johnson's take on the leaked Labour #antisemitism report, which in his view demonstrates the Jewish community was right about 'real and widespread' antisemitism from the beginning. Read Alan's engaging and well-argued piece here:

Leaked Labour antisemitism report shows the community was right all along

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Antisemites have long depicted Jews as a perverse, predatory people. It is all over the internet, influencing even prominent members of American pop culture. Jonah Cohen examines the history of the lust libel and its role in contemporary antisemitism.

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"Israel was founded as & became a refuge for Jews who had survived death camps or had their entire families extinguished. Holding this fact in mind I want you to really consider how obscene it is to claim Israel is a state of ‘white settler-colonialists’."

An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left

Kathleen Hayes invites the ‘anti-Zionist’ Left to think again. For 25 years, I was a member of a small, insular, Trotskyist organisation. Periodically during some febrile internal dispute, o...

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Recommended Reading: 'A pragmatic approach to solve Iran crisis', by @HaBahrami in @Jerusalem_Post :

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In our latest essay, @Adi_Schwartz and @EinatWilf explain why @PeterBeinart 's widely read @guardian essay calling for #Israel to accept the Palestinian 'Right of Return' is dangerous for Israel and peace.

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In @politico , @ShalomLipner says Jared #Kushner ’s peace plan looks dead on arrival:

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Former Foreign Minister @Tzipi_Livni talks exclusively to Fathom about #Israel ’s achievements over 70 years and the hard choices it will face over the next 70 years. #Israel70

Israel70 | ‘Israel is divided over what destination to put into our national GPS’: an interview...

Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former Foreign Minister and a leading peace negotiator, argues that Israel faces a hard choice: whether to focus on the vision of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democrati...

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"I'm sick of people saying 'I've been in the Labour Party for 50 years and I've never seen antisemitism'" @JohnMannMP on #LabourAntisemitism

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How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this article is blunt: not reliable at all.

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Is UNRWA preventing peace by perpetuating the Palestinian refugee problem? Read @EWilf 's article 'UNRWA: an obstacle to peace?' in #fathomjournal

UNRWA: an obstacle to peace?

For the sake of peace, reform of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is urgently needed, argues Einat Wilf. One of the greatest obstacles to peace, and certainly the least acknowledg...

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Editor Alan Johnson explains why the #Apartheid smear on #Israel , recently adopted by @btselem 's Hagai El Ad in the @guardian is wrong, political polarising and damages both the debate here and, more importantly, the peace process there:

Apartheid smear damages debate and the peace process

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#UNRWA an obstacle to peace? Read our piece by @EWilf following #NikkiHaley 's comments on Tuesday at the #UN -

UNRWA: an obstacle to peace?

For the sake of peace, reform of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is urgently needed, argues Einat Wilf. One of the greatest obstacles to peace, and certainly the least acknowledg...

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If the blockade is lifted, Hamas will "bring in more of the weaponry it needs in order to pursue its declared goal of destroying us". Read @davidhorovitz article "Hamas, the murderous neighbor that demands Israel give it the gun" in @TimesofIsrael here:

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NEW: Fathom Opinion | Jews are asking for protection from their universities from antisemitism. David Feldman’s ‘All Lives Matter’ response is not helpful, by @DavidHirsh

Opinion | Jews are asking for protection from their universities from antisemitism. David Feldman’s...

This is a response to an article by David Feldman, ‘The government should not impose a faulty definition of antisemitism on universities’, published by The Guardian on 2 December 2020. David Hirsh...

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The #EHRCReport on #LabourAntisemitism says the problem was the leadership’s ‘lack of willingness’ to tackle #antisemitism . But what explains that ‘lack of willingness’? Read what our editor Alan Johnson thinks is the answer:

Corbyn is one man. Left-Wing Antisemitism is a Tradition

Alan Johnson, editor of Fathom and author of our 2019 Report Institutionally Antisemitic Contemporary Left Antisemitism and the Crisis in the British Labour Party says it is right that Corbyn has...

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To mark the release of the paperback version & on why you should buy it, read our piece by @ShirazMaher on his book

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Jack Omer-Jackaman surveys the celebratory responses to the 7 Oct. pogrom from the left, and finds ‘a movement and a caste of mind that have lost even the barest connection to the elementary decency which is the basis of any properly left politics.’ 👇

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In an interview about his book, ‘Spies of No Country’, @MattiFriedman says the story of #Israel is too euro-centric. Israel has been shaped by contract with #Islam and Jews who have lived there for centuries. Read the full interview in #Fathom :

‘Telling Israel’s story in the 21st century will have a lot less to do with the Warsaw Ghetto than...

Journalist and author Matti Friedman talks to Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor about his acclaimed recent book, Spies of No Country which tells the little known story of the origins of Israeli...

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NEW: @lukeakehurst , a member of the Labour Party's NEC takes stock, taking justified pride in the changes made while urging eternal vigilance against those remnants of contemporary left antisemitism that are now descending into conspiracism. Read:

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In 2015 @DavidHirsh wrote that #Corbyn "paints himself as the innocent victim of unjust aggression" and "avoids responding to the detail of the challenge" More relevant than ever take a look at Hirsh’s paper for @fathomjournal

The Corbyn left: the politics of position and the politics of reason

Abstract This paper is about a preference within contemporary left-wing culture for defining opponents as not belonging rather than seeking to win them over. Opponents are constructed as being...

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"the IHRA working definition is not a piece of magic which can tell you what is antisemitic and what isn’t. It is a much less ambitious document than that. It does not legislate anything as antisemitic," writes David Hirsh:

It was the new phenomenon of Israel-focused antisemitism that required the new definition. David...

40 UK-based Israeli academics, broadly from the anti-Zionist left, have issued a ‘call to reject’ the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism. David Hirsh, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism...

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"The idea of Hamas will remain in place as long as the Palestinian issue burns heavy in the hearts and minds of millions of Palestinians." Gaza After Hamas | The Fathom Interview: @gershonbaskin

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'I think it's clear that Israel is simply not going to be permitted to win a war.' Journalist and Middle East analyst @jonathan_spyer talks to Fathom about the Iranian threat and the Western response to it. WATCH:

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. @simon_schama to understand @OxUniLabour student antisemitism scandal, read Alan Johnson: 'The Left and the Jews'

The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink

A shorter version of this talk was delivered as a contribution to a panel discussion on ‘The Left and Jews in Britain Today’ held at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, on...

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“From centre-right to hard-right, from secular to Orthodox, from Jew to Arab, the Likud's ideology is the consensus in the country,” Deputy Mayor @FleurHassanN writes in Fathom on her choice to vote Likud on 23 March:

Israel Election 2021 | ‘Why I am voting for the Likud’

The main reason I am voting Likud in this election is because two years ago after years of deliberation as a centre-right liberal, I picked my team and as any sports fan knows you stick with your...

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Archive: Returning Jihadis: A Generational Threat - Professor Peter Neumann speaks to Fathom

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"But both Starmer and Ellman also recognised that, as the Labour leader put it, the task of tearing ‘antisemitism out by its roots’ is not by no means complete" writes @_LFI Director Michael Rubin Read his full piece:

Opinion | ‘Labour’s stance on Israel-Palestine is shifting back to the balanced, mature and...

Michael Rubin is the Director of Labour Friends of Israel. Six years ago, at his first conference as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn attended the Labour Friends of Israel reception and managed the re...

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‘The Nazis despised Zionism and did all they could to defeat it' - @JeffreyHerf on the history of antisemitism

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Simon Gansinger tells the story of the left-wing anti-Zionist campaign that destroyed Poland’s Jewish community

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"If you want to abolish just one state in the world, and it happens to be the Jewish one, then that's antisemitic" - Professor Alan Johnson, speaking at the launch of his new report on #LabourAntisemitism

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‘Looking ahead, telling #Israel ’s story in the 21st century will have a lot less to do with the #Warsaw Ghetto than it will with #Kurdistan and #Aleppo ’. Read #Fathom ’s new interview with @MattiFriedman on his new book, ‘Spies of No Country’:

‘Telling Israel’s story in the 21st century will have a lot less to do with the Warsaw Ghetto than...

Journalist and author Matti Friedman talks to Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor about his acclaimed recent book, Spies of No Country which tells the little known story of the origins of Israeli...

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New: Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld's critique of Seth Anziska's 'Preventing Palestine',

Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld’s critique of...

Yair Hirschfeld was one of the two original architects of the Oslo accords. In this extended critical review of Seth Anziska’s Preventing Palestine. A Political History From Camp David to Oslo...

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A former civil servant, Anna Stanley reports on a counter-terrorism course @KingsCollegeLon she attended which she found a deeply, existentially depressing experience. Read her words here:

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NEW: Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel’s Designations by @GeraldNGOM @NGOmonitor

Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel’s Designations (1)

Fathom invited responses to the Israeli government’s decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as prohibited terrorist fronts from both supporters and opponents of the move. This week Gerald M....

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NEW: UK-Israel 2021 | Ambivalent Allies? Zionism, Israel and the Conservative Party from Balfour to Boris by @EquusontheBuses

UK-Israel 2021 | Ambivalent Allies? Zionism, Israel and the Conservative Party from Balfour to Boris

James Vaughan is Lecturer in International History at the University of Aberystwyth. His current research focuses upon the changing attitudes and policies of Britain’s major political parties to...

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In his new essay, @DavidHirsh reviews and rejects the arguments made by the 40 UK-based Israeli academics to reject the #IHRA definition.

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NEW to Fathom: Author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism, @DavidHirsh , asserts political antisemitism has re-entered the British mainstream, and it is not going to just disappear, especially in a Britain being remade by Brexit populism:

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"The danger of understanding terrorism with cultural relativism is that it breeds moral apathy; the kind that says ‘Who are we, mere democratic, liberal Westerners to impose our morality onto others? Who are we to say our culture is superior to others?’"

Scandalous Indoctrination: Inside a Kings College Counter-Terrorism Course for UK Civil Servants

A former civil servant, Anna Stanley reports on a counter-terrorism course she attended which she found a deeply, existentially depressing experience. She argues that ‘prestigious’ educational ins...

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"The Jewish future underwent a paradigm shift on and after 10/7 – it is incumbent upon us to face up to that fact and find a new way forward." @SaraHirschhorn1 for Fathom:

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A reminder that you still have time to register for our upcoming Fathom Annual Lecture with @EinatWilf on Wednesday 7 December 👇

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To mark our 10th birthday, we will be holding the inaugural Fathom Annual Lecture, 'Why we should all be Zionists if we want peace', on Wednesday 7 December (18:30-20:00 GMT), with @EinatWilf . RSVP here:

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"The mainstream media has broadly given credence to Israeli claims that Hamas committed widespread sexual abuse on 7 October. But polling shows that most British Muslims don’t believe this. Just one in four accept that Hamas engaged in murder or rape. Over the last two decades,

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Albert Memmi audaciously and innovatively grappled with questions of Jewish identity, social justice, anti-colonialism and Zionism whilst rejecting either/or polarities including national liberation versus internationalism. Read Susie Linfield in #Fathom :

Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation

With kind permission from Yale University Press, Fathom brings you an extract from 'The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky,' by Susie Linfield. Download a PDF...

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"The course’s overriding emphasis was that Islamist extremism is exaggerated. Right-wing extremism was given more weight than is proportionate. This is in direct conflict with...the latest government commissioned review of its anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent."

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The final part of John Ware's Fathom series 'Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years' tackles Al Jazeera's "Agenda Broadcasting"

Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 3): Agenda Broadcasting from Al Jazeera’s The...

John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? In Part 1 of this series he explained how The Forde Report, and Forde’s statements in a subsequent interview...

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In our new essay, Joshua Brook critiques @PeterBeinart 's recent adoption of anti-Zionism and the one-state solution as another of his 'good fights'.

Incoming! Watch out, Peter Beinart is Fighting the Good Fight (again)

Peter Beinart backed the US invasion of Iraq. He called it ‘the Good Fight’ and wrote a 2006 book about how the war would ‘Make America Great Again’, end the ‘war on terror’ and bring demo...

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New to Fathom: Israel70 | A Light Unto The Nations Once More? The renaissance in Israel’s international development assistance programme by Aliza Inbal Ophelie Namiech

Israel70 | A Light Unto The Nations Once More? The renaissance in Israel’s international developm...

Israel was once a world leader in development assistance and a model for African states to follow. There are signs it can become both again, with the explosion of new Israeli development actors and...

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New: “Antisemitism, in the figure of the ‘greedy Jew’, introduces a personalisation of what are in reality supra-individual, abstract, social processes.” Karin Stögner explores intersectionality frameworks and antisemitism in her contribution to Fathom:

Intersectionality and Antisemitism – A New Approach

Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this...

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Privileged to have such a prestigious panel to launch editor of Fathom, Alan Johnson's new report on #LabourAntisemitism

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To mark our 10th birthday, we will be holding the inaugural Fathom Annual Lecture, 'Why we should all be Zionists if we want peace', on Wednesday 7 December (18:30-20:00 GMT), with @EinatWilf . RSVP here:

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Our fifth young Israeli leaders is Hen Mazzig, Israeli writer, speaker and activist. As a Mizrahi living in Israel, Hen longs for the day that a leader of Middle Eastern descent emerges to lead the Middle Eastern country of Israel.

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Are Palestinian hopes for a 'right of return' damaging their efforts for an independent and sovereign state? Read @RaphaelAhren 's interview with @TimesofIsrael on her new book "The War of Return" here:

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Yair Hirschfeld: ‘While both @SethAnziska and I seek to achieve a two state solution, for Seth it is a simple process: end occupation and permit the #Palestinians to take care of their own lives. Alas, I wish this was a realistic position’.

Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld’s critique of...

Yair Hirschfeld was one of the two original architects of the Oslo accords. In this extended critical review of Seth Anziska’s Preventing Palestine. A Political History From Camp David to Oslo...

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NEW: The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly distorting today’s debate about Middle East peace, writes Salo Aizenberg in Fathom

The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly...

The erasure from our historical memory of Israeli attempts to achieve peace by agreeing to Palestinian statehood, and of the serial Palestinian rejections, is now standard practice. This erasure...

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Fathom publishes @daverich1 's new introduction to Everyday Hate 👇 "This book is not about that war. It is an account of anti-Jewish hatred today and throughout history; of why and how this ancient prejudice still has such purchase in the modern world."

Book Extract | Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it

This is the preface of Everyday Hate by Dave Rich, published by Biteback. On the morning of 7 October 2023, a year after I wrote the original introduction to this book, around 3,000 Hamas fighters...

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We are at Portcullis House for the launch event of editor of @fathomjournal Professor Alan Johnson's new report on antisemitism in the Labour Party

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Available now: PEACEBUILDING - a @fathomjournal Special Issue. A groundbreaking series of articles, interviews and podcasts curated by @ALLMEP 's @JohnLyndon_ . All available to read on our website:

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"one of the most troubling aspects of the Corbyn years was the obsessive focus by many on the actions of Israel while wilfully neglecting the suppression of activists by both Hamas and the PA," argues Gary Kent in Fathom:

‘Choosing comrades’: Solidarity in the Middle East and Labour’s foreign policy

In this essay, Gary Kent argues that the British Labour Party should seek to amplify the voices of allies in the region who share Labour values and adopt a policy of consistency towards human rights...

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"They have to know that this time the world is serious. We have to stop allowing people to say two state solution when they only recognise one of those states." The Fathom Interview: @gershonbaskin Full video:

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"We believe that this community...will be one of the most important assets that we all have...in trying to build something much more just and equal and peaceful and secure for Israelis and Palestinians." @Fathom_Editor and Jack Omer-Jackaman speak with @JohnLyndon_ @ALLMEP

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#Fathom23 Highlight: ‘By equalising Zionism with fascism and Nazism, Soviet propaganda architects sought to create a visceral reaction -of a kind that didn’t depend on fact but on a deep feeling'. Read @IzaTabaro 's excellent essay on Soviet Judeophobia:

Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism

For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the ...

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Matthew Bolton, co-author of ‘Pitts of Corbynism: A Critical Approach’, takes aim at #Corbyn 's favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry and explains what they get wrong about contemporary #antisemitism :

What Corbyn’s favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry get wrong about contemporary...

Matthew Bolton is the co-author with Frederick Harry Pitts of Corbynism: A Critical Approach, praised by Professor Paul Thompson for ‘cutting through the fog of uncritical adulation and unthinking...

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. @NickCohen4 to understand @OxUniLabour student antisemitism scandal, read Alan Johnson: 'The Left and the Jews'

The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink

A shorter version of this talk was delivered as a contribution to a panel discussion on ‘The Left and Jews in Britain Today’ held at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, on...

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NEW: The IHRA: A Reply to the Guardian Letter signed by Sir Stephen Sedley et al. by @daverich1

The IHRA: A Reply to the Guardian Letter signed by Sir Stephen Sedley et al.

On 7 January 2021 The Guardian published a letter from eight lawyers who claimed that the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which the UK government has instructed UK universities to adopt, undermines...

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In the second part of his three-part Fathom exclusive series ‘Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years’, renowned BBC journalist John Ware reviews Asa Winstanley’s book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.

Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 2): Agenda Journalism in Asa Winstanley’s book...

John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? In Part 1 of this series he explained how The Forde Report, and Forde’s statements in a subsequent intervi...

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Excellent interview with @Charles_Lister who talks about the complex situation in Syria & why al-Assad has to go:

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"We believe that this community...will be one of the most important assets that we all have...in trying to build something much more just and equal and peaceful and secure for Israelis and Palestinians." @Fathom_Editor and Jack Omer-Jackaman spoke with @JohnLyndon_ @ALLMEP

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New to #Fathom : leading foreign policy expert @Doranimated argues that @realDonaldTrump ’s #MiddleEast policy is coherent, in contrast to the ‘Iran-friendly’ approach pursued by the #Obama administration:

Thucydides Goes to Washington: an interview with Michael Doran about US Grand Strategy in the...

Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. specialising in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White...

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Today is the 26th anniversary of Rabin's assassination. In 2015 we published an eBook on why Rabin still matters. It's content as relevant as ever for Israel, Palestinians and the region:

Rabin eBook | Why Rabin matters today

This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here. The eBook also features essays and interviews by Reuven Rivlin, Uri Dromi, Omer Bar-Lev, Mich...

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NEW: It was the new phenomenon of Israel-focused antisemitism that required the new definition of #Antisemitism @DavidHirsh responds to a recent ‘call to reject’ the #IHRA

It was the new phenomenon of Israel-focused antisemitism that required the new definition. David...

40 UK-based Israeli academics, broadly from the anti-Zionist left, have issued a ‘call to reject’ the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism. David Hirsh, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism...

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In our new piece, Meron Medzini reveals the story behind this israeli solider in the Suez after the #SixDayWar

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The #Left view #Palestinians as wholly blameless victims that lack moral responsibility and agency say @j4mi3p

The Left and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The path to righteous hatred

In this timely and eloquent essay, Jamie Palmer explores the impact on the politics of the Left of desperately simplistic narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that have been designed to...

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When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? Cary Nelson and Michael Saenger argue for understanding antisemitic anti-Zionism as ‘a prejudice with definable characteristics’ in this fortnight's @fathomjournal :

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Our latest essay is @JohnStrawson telling the little-known history of British communist support for the Jewish state in 1948:

Communists for the Jewish State: British Communists and the Daily Worker in 1948

'The British Mandate in Palestine is now ended and the Jewish State of Israel has been proclaimed … this news will be acclaimed by friends of peace and progress the world over’. With these words, ...

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NEW: @ICSR_Centre Shiraz Maher breaks down ideology of #IS & shows how it’s radically different to normative Islam

Shiraz Maher | Mapping contemporary Salafi-Jihadism

Shiraz Maher is the author of Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea (Hurst, 2016) and Deputy Director at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London. His...

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Must read: Editor Alan Johnson pens an open letter to the 100 artists who see Israel as an illegitimate 'settler colonial' society:

‘Can’t You See He’s Fooled You All?’: An Open Letter to Peter Gabriel et al explaining why Israel...

100 artists including Ken Loach, Mark Rylance and Susan Sarandon have signed an open letter indicting Israel as an illegitimate ‘settler colonial’ society. Fathom editor Alan Johnson sets out the ...

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MUST READ: John Lyndon from @ALLMEP calls on the UK to seize the moment ahead of June’s G7 to join with others to turn the bi-partisan Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA) into a Global International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace:

The UK and US can help build an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The time is now.

This journal has long argued that people-to-people peacemaking programmes on a grand scale are essential to advance the stalled Middle East Peace Process. In 2017 we commissioned a major report, ‘A...

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NEW: My Israeli Music, by @HenMazzig

My Israeli Music | Hen Mazzig

Hen Mazzig is an Israeli writer living in London. He is a Senior Fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute (TLVi.org) and a social media influencer. Here are his 10 favourite Israeli music tracks. Malkat ...

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New to #Fathom21 : ‘I had planned to own a farm but I ended up in the Israeli political zoo’: an interview with MK @SharrenHaskel

‘I had planned to own a farm but I ended up in the Israeli political zoo’: an interview with MK...

From combat soldier to veterinary nurse to the youngest MK in the Knesset, Sharren Haskel has had an unconventional route into politics. In early October Haskel sat down with deputy editor Samuel...

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"They have to know that this time the world is serious. We have to stop allowing people to say two state solution when they only recognise one of those states." The Fathom Interview: @gershonbaskin Full video:

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NEW: Is Israel a ‘Settler-Colonial’ State? A debate between Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh

Is Israel a ‘Settler-Colonial’ State? A debate between Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh

On 17 December Peter Beinart hosted an online discussion entitled, 'Professors Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh on whether Israel is a Settler-Colonial State.' He was joined by special guests Leila...

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Our new piece tells the personal story of the thousands of Jews who were expelled from #Egypt post 1956 #Suez Crisis

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"Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation is perhaps the worst book I’ve ever read."

Book Review | Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and...

Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation is perhaps the worst book I’ve ever read. It has little narrative flow, doesn’t consist of a full revie...

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In their new book, @EinatWilf and @Adi_Schwartz explain how 1948 has seared into the Palestinian national psyche as a means to exact their revenge on a people they considered loathsome and inferior:

Book Review | The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously st...

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Weekend read: The end of Nasserism: How the 1967 War opened new space for Islamism in the Arab world by @shadihamid

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New: @_LFI Director Michael Rubin reflects on his experience at the Labour Party Conference and the implications for the party's foreign policy towards Israel and the Two State Solution

Opinion | ‘Labour’s stance on Israel-Palestine is shifting back to the balanced, mature and...

Michael Rubin is the Director of Labour Friends of Israel. Six years ago, at his first conference as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn attended the Labour Friends of Israel reception and managed the re...

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'There are hundreds of thousands of Yazidis still in IDP camps in northern Iraq and no one is helping them return to their homes.' Read @sfrantzman 's take on why peace has not arrived in Iraq despite the defeat of ISIS:

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@richard_landes argues in @fathomjournal “that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls the ‘global progressive left…acts as an enriching and disseminating agent for Jihadi Jew-hatred” - the global problem of antisemitism discussed

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NEW: Don’t believe the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable @GileadSher

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